OmniNerd: Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and Graphviz – “If you feel yourself reaching for Microsoft PowerPoint or Visio, quickly find a mirror and haze yourself. While both of those programs can be used for good, you’ll only further complicate things if you use them in this situation to jump from raw data to visualization“

New York Times: The End of Banking as We Know It – “Clearly, the entire financial industry is in the midst of a makeover. And while no one wants to call it nationalization, perhaps we can agree on this much: The money business as we have come to know it over the last two decades — with its lush salaries, big-swinging risk-takers and ultrathin capital cushions — is a goner.“